The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) recently organised 27th meeting of the Regional Directors and one-day workshop about ongoing Diploma in Elementary Education (DElEd) programme in Noida, UP.
The workshop was attended by State nodal officers, NIOS state coordinators, regional directors of NIOS and many others. It workshop was a follow up of the recently conducted examinations where approximately 12 lakh untrained teachers got themselves registered on SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active–learning for Young Aspiring Minds) portal and gave the exam conducted by all States governments and NIOS in a fair, impartial and smooth manner across the country.
last year, the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) had assigned the massive task of training of approximately13 lakh untrained in-service elementary school teachers to NIOS.
The training has to be completed before March 31, 2019. The task assigned by the MHRD to NIOS was huge but it could not have been possible without pro-active support of the all the State Governments.
Prof CB Sharma, chairman, NIOS thanked all stakeholders for conducting the DElEd examination across the country in very free and fair manner. He termed this massive training programme of untrained teachers a unique and historic and call upon all stakeholders to continue with the same spirit and dedication for all future DElEd examinations in order to maintain the quality of the training being imparted.
While addressing the gathering, SK Prasad, director (SSS) talked about the objectives and structure of the workshop, whereas Sanjay Kumar Sinha, director (Academic) gave a brief about the DElEd programme in NIOS. C Dharuman, Director (Eval.) and Secretary, NIOS emphasised on the conduct and Evaluation of the DElEd examinations across the country in an effective and time-bound manner. They also discussed future strategy for next examinations.